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TRAP.

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Application filed June 7, 19,06. Serial No. 320,658.

To all whom, it vmay concern:

-Be it known that I, JAMES P. SANDEFUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stamford, in the county of Jones, State ofTexas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Traps; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to animaltraps; and it has for its obj ect the provision of improvements that wil render the trap simple in construction, easy and safe of manipulation in setting and handling the same, and make its operation certain.

The invention comprises two spiked bars, one of which is spring-actuated when the bait is disturbed and the trap is sprung, so as to catch the animal between the opposing spikes.

The invention will first be described in detail, in connection with the annexed drawings, forming a art of this s ecication and then be pointedJ out with istinctness and particularity in the subjoined claims.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the trap in set position. Fig. 2 is a like view ofthe invention, showing the trap as sprung. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the latch and its supporting part.

Similar iigures of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.

In the drawings, 10 designates the top bar, 11 and 12 the side bars, and 13 the bottom bar, of a rectangular frame forming the body portion of my improved trap.

14 is a bar adapted at its ends to engage i the side bars and be guided by them as it vslides up and down thereon.

Helical springs 15 surround the upper portions of the side bars and bear on the cross-bar 14, their upper ends bearing against the upper bar 10. 'lhe cross-bar 14 is provided with sharpened spikes or pins 15', that project downward, and the lower bar 13 is similarly equipped, excepting that the spikes or pins 15 project upward.

Latch-standards 19 are carriedv by the outer ends of the bar 13 and are bifurcated at their upper ends, as shown at 21. Crosspins 20 are pivoted in these bifurcations transversely of the cross-bar 14 for vertical movement and when in horizontal position are arranged to receive the cross-bar 14 thereupon andhold the latter against downward movement.

*U rights 22 are carried by the bar 13 inwar ly of the standards 19 and have links pivoted to their upper ends, as shown at 23.

A bait-bar 16 includes two pivotally-connected sections, which are pivoted at their outer ends to the lower portions of the uprights 22 and are movable to lie in a common horizontal plane or with their inner ends depressed, and members 25 are pivoted at their lower ends adjacent to the outer, ends of the bait-bar 16 and have their outer portions turned outwardly at right angles and pivoted to the upper ends of the links 23. It will thus be seen that when the pivoted portions of the bait-bar 16 are brought into alinement the upper portions of the members 25 will be moved outwardly, and the arrangement is such that their extremities are brought into position to engage over the pins 21 at one sideof their pivot-points to hold the pins in position to receive the cross-bar 14 u on their opposite ends.

A ait-receiving finger 18 is carried by the bait-bar, as shown, and it will be understood thatwhen the bar 14 is in raised position the springs 15 are held under tension to move the bar 14 downwardly when the latches are released.

When an animal attempts to take the bait from the bait-bar or materially disturbs the bait or presses on the bar, it Will break the joint 17 therein and ull inward on the tripstandard, releasing tfieir connection at their upper ends with the cross-pins 20. At the same instant the said cross-pins will let slip the ends of the s ike-bar 14, and the springs 15 will shoot t e same down, impaling the animal at the bait on the s ikes or pins of the rods 13 and 14, all as will)be clearly understood without further description.

The screw-eye or ring on the upper bar 10 may be used for securing the trap in place.

It is obvious that changes may be made in' IIO y-movable spike-bar, springs on the j spike-bar, a hinged jointed bait-bar, and operative connections between the bait-bar and central spike-bar arranged to latch the latter in raised position when the joint of the baitbar is straightened, and to release the spikebar when the joint of the bait-bar isbroken.

2. In a trap, the combination with uprights and a top bar, of a base-bar provided with upwardly-projecting spikes, a central spike-bar, springs on the uprights and arranged to depress the central spike-bar, a hinged jointed bait-bar, latch-standards, latch-pins pivoted in the standards for movement into and out of position to receive the central spike-bar thereupon and to hold the latter in raised position, uprights, links piv- JAMES I). SANDEFUR. Witnesses:

D. W. ARNOLD, S. O. MARTIN. 

